Weep for Rachel

One of the poems I will be reading tonight from "Shadows on the Carpet I" along with the audio version.

I wrote this poem after Acidplanet artist JTL (John Carter) contacted me about adding some words to a piece of music he had written.  After listening to his piece, I wrote Weep for Rachel.  He asked me to record the spoken word and mixed it into his music. Hope you enjoy!

Audio of  Weep for Rachel

Weep for Rachel

Weep for Rachel

photo by AVR

Weep as she weeps

Weep for Rachel

Weep as she weeps

As they slaughter

So shall they reap

Do they not hear

That all of nature

Adds its tears to

The sobs of Rachel

Weep for Rachel

Weep as she weeps

As they slaughter

So shall they reap

Do they not know

We are all one

Do they not see

What’s being done

Weep for Rachel

Weep as she weeps

As they slaughter

So shall they reap

Weep for Rachel

Weep as she weeps

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006

Shadows on the Carpet I

I have finally finished the cover for "Shadows on the Carpet I".  I was not able to work on it while I was in Nevada visiting my grandchildren because neither my son's nor my daughter-in-law's computer worked.  I just submitted it for approval.  I pray that I will be able to get copies of the book in time for the Tamale Hut Cafe Reading Series where I will be the featured reader for May.  If not, I will just read from "The T. Collection" and I still have a few of  "Dearest and Most Precious: A Love Journal" left.  I would like to include "Shadows on the Carpet I" if I could.  That way, I will have something for my readers' varied tastes.

White Out

With all the snow and freezing temperatures, this just seems fitting.  Some of you may wonder why I post audios of my poems to which I give you my favorite quote: 

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears."
Octavio Paz

Sharing, 'White Out' - I was trying to recreate the disorientation felt in the middle of white out conditions.

White Out Audio

photo by AVR

White Out

Tangled in the

artificial

light of snow

The glare of shrill

ice lamina

promptly blinds

The silent roar

of an absent

wind deafens

As you drown in

the emptiness of

vacant space

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007